80 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



and is for the most part pale brownish ; its outer side 

 aciculated and with a few stout striations ; the apex has 

 in the middle two stout keels, which form a large tri- 

 angular space rough in the centre and depressed at the 

 apex ; the keels prolonged as one to the apex ; the sides 

 obliquely aciculated. The mesopleurae punctured, the 

 metapleurae obliquely striated ; the striations widely 

 separated. Legs : the coxae and the base of the fore 

 femora black ; the fore femora yellowish ; the four 

 posterior ferruginous, the fore tibiae yellowish ; the middle 

 ferruginous ; the hinder blackish ; the tarsi blackish ; the 

 anterior testaceous, yellowish at the base ; the hind tibiae 

 strongly spined, the spines white, the spurs of a more 

 testaceous hue ; the apex of the middle femora and the 

 four hinder tibiae at the base, yellow. Wings clear hyaline, 

 the nervures dark fuscous. Abdomen black, strongly 

 punctured, the sides with a broad yellow line on the four 

 basal segments ; the pygidial area thickly covered with 

 longish fulvous hairs. 



ASTATA TARDA, Sp. 110V. 



Nigra ; abdomine rufo late balteato ; alis hyalinis, fere 

 fumatis ; stigmate testaceo. d\ Long. iomm. 



Hab. Ceylon (Yerbury). 



Resembles A. agilis Sm., but is larger, and has 

 not the wings distinctly smoky at the apex ; the radial 

 cellule at the top much longer than the stigma, while in 

 A . agilis it is only about its length ; the third cubital cellule 

 much longer compared to the second ; and the median 

 segments with no distinct longitudinal keels. Head 

 closely punctured ; the sides and clypeus thickly covered 

 with long white hairs ; a furrow leads down to the 

 antennae, the space between the latter smooth and 

 shining, as is also the space in front of the ocelli. 

 Scape of the antennae covered with long white hairs. 



